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| Title | Some Account of the Last Yellow Fever Epidemic of British Guiana |
| Author | Daniel Blair |
| Editor | John Davy |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 24 May 2006 |
| Length | 10 pages |
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